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Coronary artery disease
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Association of body mass index with mortality and cardiovascular events for patients with coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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  • Zhi Jian Wang Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Disease, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yu Jie Zhou Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Disease, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Benjamin Z Galper Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Fei Gao Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Disease, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Robert W Yeh Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Harvard Clinical Research Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Laura Mauri Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Harvard Clinical Research Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Yu Jie Zhou, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Anzhen Avenue #2, Chaoyang district, Beijing 100029, China; azzyj12{at}163.com
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Wang ZJ, Zhou YJ, Galper BZ, et al
Association of body mass index with mortality and cardiovascular events for patients with coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Heart 2015;101:1631-1638.

Publication history

  • Received November 5, 2014
  • Revised March 6, 2015
  • Accepted April 3, 2015
  • First published May 29, 2015.
Online issue publication 
October 25, 2017

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